There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.